The puzzles really made me think and the cutscenes were fun. If you showed the maximum number of rarium you can finish with that would give some replay value too, I finished with 3!
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How does your game meet GBJam's theme
The player must pursue and utilize a material known as Rarium, which has existed for a long time in the game's world and promises the power of magic to those who wield it, but has yet to be found and harnessed by anyone.
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"Makes sense. I would also risk my life for Lagrange!"
Wonderful! 💚 A simple, yet complex high-score puzzle game with highly compelling art and character design, and a driving prog rock soundtrack that captures the allure and the danger. The music cutting out on death is a perfect touch. I was enraptured the whole way through! Quite interesting that the guards are so quick to slay their own; perhaps they expect to be betrayed by their companions?
Very minor nitpick: In the text, whole words may start in one line and then "skip" to the next line after reaching the edge, creating a little tension when reading while it's typing. There's some ways around this, such as predicting where breaks should be inserted after spaces (easier with a monospaced font) or by creating the whole words beforehand and then "revealing" them letter by letter.
All-in-all, fantastic! Great work!
2 days ago(+1)
Yeah theres actually a fairly elegant implementation in GML using text_width to predict when a word would rollover and prewrap it. Never got around to implementing it. I'm glad you enjoyed the game!
Knowing I beat a developer score prompted me to play again while recording so that you could verify everything is behaving as intended. I'm a bit unsure if the interaction with walking past the guards while they're walking is intentional or not.
I may have overthought it a bit.
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But yeah, great time! 💚
1 day ago(+1)
Driveby, the guard should be guarding the exit, this only accounted for a small save. The real kicker is your 4 pebble solution to the final level. The interaction with walking past guard is intended (was originally an accident), but I hadn't thought to use it for that level. Well done! I'll send you a message if we end up making some more levels in case you would like to playtest them!
1 day ago (+1)
Wait, you got a 14 rarium clear? That's nuts! (EDIT: Just saw the cheese clear on the Driveby level, good job finding that!)
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